29 October 2009

The Complete Guide to Fake Toys

いんちきおもちゃ大図鑑(inchiki omocha daizukan), or "The Complete Guide to Fake Toys", features over 300 fake toys from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Korea. It will be released in November at a price of 1900 Yen (1995 Yen with tax).

Moeyo has a preview of it, so let's sit tight and have a look what will come ahead of us...

First off: the "Happy Drummer Cat Adventurer". Those who are into older anime will probably recognise this to be originated from Doraemon. In fact Moeyo has reported about this particular toy a while ago. I was a bit traumatised when I first saw it opening its face revealing an elephant's face and a trunk coming out on YouTube lol...

This looks like an enlarged version of Be@rbrick of some kind. The characters on the right are actually supposed to be Dorami and Nobita

Doraemon Siamese twins?!

Doraemon crocodile dentist o_O

What do you call Pikachu when it is hybridised with Bomberman? Bomber Pikachu??

My brain is malfunctioning; I have lost the will to find out what they are already. You're welcome to help me on this though. Thanks to Weeabo again for pointing two of them out for me there!

Korean's well known Robot Taekwon V, which originally is copied from Mazinger Z. Korea was actually way ahead of China for making their own versions of Japanese anime. I may talk about this on another day.

And last but definitely not least,

A basketball transformer, revealing Yao Ming as the head of the robot inside. Now talk about creativity...

I will need to take a break from these crazy counterfeits and fake toys after posting this ^^;

"Korean's well known Robot Taekwon V, which originally is copied from Mazinger Z. Korea was actually way ahead of China for making their own versions of Japanese anime. I may talk about this on another day."

LOL, a knock-off of a knock-off. ^^;;;

I love that Doraemon bearbrick thing; reminds me of the I Love You Boyz parody.

Those are some of the most ugliest Dragonball figures I have ever seen. God if ppl can't tell they are fake then they seriously need to rewatch the Dragonball series to recap their memory or better yet, google for some real Dragonball figures if u don't have a single clue.

@ Blowfish:Infringing copyright while making up something new is quite something I must admit XD

The Doraemon drummer is surely traumatising with unbelievable appearance and brainwashing tune...

@ robostrike:So far it's only known to be available in Japanese online stores such as Rakuten and Amazon Japan which I think don't offer overseas shipping. I May update the page once I know they're up for overseas ordering as well.

@ Weaboo:We have someone who knows the stuff! Thanks for pointing them out; page updated!

@ Snark:Will you use it gallantly in full force if it comes out?

@ Tommy:A very well known knock-off too ^^;

Don't remind me of I Love You Boyz parodies; they are just as trauamatising as the Happy Drummer Cat Adventurer lol...

@ GunStray:Who knows. Maybe they're available in the book too as there are over 300 entries in there ^^;

@ Optic:Goku looks nothing like Goku on that figure ^^;

I don't think fake figmas are as epic as these crazy hybrids unless somebody felt it's a good idea to hybridise or morph figma with something else. I'm not sure whether I can take anymore for the time being ^^;

The Kamen Rider phone transformer thingy is the G-Phone from Gaorangerhttp://www.supersentai.com/database/2001_gaoranger/ar-weapons.htmland the second Thomas the Tank Engine picture appears to be based off of this's toy:http://www.supersentai.com/database/2005_magiranger/travelion.html